...the California Supreme Court overturned a voter-approved ban on gay marriage Thursday in a ruling that would allow same-sex couples in the nation's biggest state to tie the knot

Yay California, boo Associated Press reporters with zero knowledge of geography.

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It is the biggest if they mean in terms of population.

This was the best news I've seen all week.

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That's what I assumed they meant, was population.

I'm all giddy. :)

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I caught that too when I read the story a little earlier. I kept telling myself that they really called us the biggest state to allow same-sex couples to marry. Self-delusion can be a good thing sometimes. :)

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What always disturbs me about reporting on appeal decisions is that they exhibit zero interest in law; there's always just a default to ideology. Decisions may as a matter of fact usually break down on ideological lines (especially, I guess, in a system where judges are elected), but I wish there wasn't a (self-fulfilling?) presumption that that's just the way the (sham of a) system works.

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You beat me to it... was gonna post later.

I wonder if the ones who were married here in SF and then got annulled by the court will have to do it again.

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